Is New Orleans Safe?

It is more impressive at night

We went to Armstrong Park the other day.  It's close by.  It is the most peaceful place you'll ever want to get lost in.  It's in Treme.  We were on a cemetery and voodoo walking tour.  

There are plenty of cemeteries all over the city.  If you don't live here, they rise up in the most unexpected places.  As you may know, the cemeteries in New Orleans aren't anything like what you have back home.  They are amazing mazes.  In a city that has been filling its crypts for centuries, you never know what will be waiting around the next corner.  

When people ask us if they should take a cemetery tour or just visit one on their own, we always sat that it depends.  It depends on if you are going to visit the grave of a loved one.  We generally recommend the tour, not because the cemeteries are unsafe, but because you should understand where you are.

Armstrong Park is in Treme.  Storyville. 

This is in New Orleans

Some people are surprised to learn that we live in Treme.  "Like the HBO series?" they ask.  Not really, but close enough.  The camera crews shoot all over New Orleans.   John Goodman lived just up our street, around the corner at Crete Street.  That's what Frau Schmitt tells me.  She's watched all the DVDs, and she is usually right about these things.

This is something to remember, at night

Some of our guests ask if there is voodoo in New Orleans.  Based on the tour we took, there is.  A little.  They ask if New Orelans is dangerous.  New Orleans is a little bit dangerous, but we wouldn't call it unsafe.

The people who live in New Orleans go about their lives, making their city like nowhere else, making it home.  It is very picturesque.  Most of the people who die in New Orleans are buried above ground.  Most of the people who live in New Orleans dance like nobody is watching.  

Statue in Armstrong Park

I haven't seen any voodoo, per se, but there is definitely magic in New Orleans.  That much is for sure.

Everyone who stays here long enough agrees that New Orleans is safe.  Good memories are made in New Orleans.

A votre sante,
La Belle Esplanade bed and breakfast.